Dr. Ning Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University. Dr. Lu received the B.Eng. (2007) and M.Eng. (2010) degrees from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and Ph.D. degree (2015) from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, all in electrical engineering. Prior to joining Queen’s University, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computing Science at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada. From 2015 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also spent the summer of 2009 as an intern in the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

His current research interests include real-time scheduling, distributed algorithms, and reinforcement learning for wireless communication networks. He has published more than 40 papers in top IEEE journals and conferences, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM MobiHoc, and IEEE INFOCOM, etc.

Dr. Lu has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships. He and his team won second place in the 2014 Valeo Innovation Challenge for excellence in vehicular networking protocol design. He was presented the best paper award at the 2014 IEEE GLOBECOM conference. He received a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015. Dr. Lu is currently on the editorial board of Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks, Springer. He has served as journal guest editor, TPC member of many IEEE conferences, and reviewer of refereed journals.

Research Interests: Scheduling, computing, learning in communication networks, with applications to Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, data centers, etc.

For more information about Dr. Lu's research, visit his Google Scholar Page.

Recent Publications:

• N. Lu, Y. Zhou, C. Shi, N. Cheng, L. Cai, and B. Li, “Planning while flying: a measurement-aided dynamic planning of drone small cells,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 2693-2705, 2018.
• N. Lu, B. Ji, and B. Li, “Age-based Scheduling: Improving Data Freshness for Wireless Real-Time Traffic,” Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc 2018, Los Angeles, California, USA, June 2018.
• N. Cheng, W. Xu, W. Shi, Y. Zhou, N. Lu, H. Zhou, and X. Shen, “Air-ground integrated mobile edge networks: architecture, challenges and opportunities,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 8, pp. 25-32, 2018.

For a complete list of publications, visit Dr. Lu’s Google Scholar Page.

ELEC 373 Winter 2020